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'cause i'm motherfuckin' curious.

Post a new category and I'll add it.

New categories added, and you can vote more than once (thanks to the mod who fixed it while I was at work).

Great thread, mega. I'm very interested to see what people are doing.

It might help for people to post grades/tier as well.

Where's the category for general public interest? Legal nonprofit FTW-- that's where I am. I started Monday. There should also be categories for studying abroad and taking classes.

My school is known, and anonymity fail ---> no grades, but they were fine, and I was never asked about them for this job. I lucked out and got a public service stipend through a student organization, so I feel extremely lucky, and I'm really enjoying my internship so far. I should add that I'll be taking classes later in the summer.

I'll move this to Forum for Law Students, if that's okay, just so more people see it.

Yeah legal non profit here too. I'd also add a public defenders category maybe.

ETA: good grades but the job never asked for my transcript so that had nothing to do with it. Stipend from the school. REALLY excited about the job.

sophie316 wrote:Yeah legal non profit here too. I'd also add a public defenders category maybe.

In complete agreement. What is it with everyone and wanting to work for the DA?

OperaSoprano wrote:

sophie316 wrote:Yeah legal non profit here too. I'd also add a public defenders category maybe.

In complete agreement. What is it with everyone and wanting to work for the DA?

They wanna catch bad guys.

small law + 1 summer class. low end t2. haven't received spring grades yet, but fall grades were top 25%.

Public interest org + summer class. Someone's gonna be a busy boy.

romothesavior wrote:

OperaSoprano wrote:

sophie316 wrote:Yeah legal non profit here too. I'd also add a public defenders category maybe.

In complete agreement. What is it with everyone and wanting to work for the DA?

They wanna catch bad guys.

Then they should quit while they are ahead and go be cops! :p

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dood wrote:Why didn't somebody think of this earlier? 180 thread.

MegaTTTron's kind of on a roll right now, but yes, I agree.

edited / never mind

where's the snark option for your mom?

OperaSoprano wrote:

dood wrote:Why didn't somebody think of this earlier? 180 thread.

MegaTTTron's kind of on a roll right now, but yes, I agree.

Thanks for fixin' up the thread OS. I was at work. Oh no, not my judicial internship. My other, 30 hour a week job as a projectionist in a movie theatre. What a terrible idea this was. Half the week I'm up at an ungodly hour to drive downtown to the federal courthouse. The rest of the week/ weekend I work until 1 and 2 AM. Planning ahead fail.

megaTTTron wrote:

OperaSoprano wrote:

dood wrote:Why didn't somebody think of this earlier? 180 thread.

MegaTTTron's kind of on a roll right now, but yes, I agree.

Thanks for fixin' up the thread OS. I was at work. Oh no, not my judicial internship. My other, 30 hour a week job as a projectionist in a movie theatre. What a terrible idea this was. Half the week I'm up at an ungodly hour to drive downtown to the federal courthouse. The rest of the week/ weekend I work until 1 and 2 AM. Planning ahead fail.

Wow, that is seriously a cool job! I hoped you wouldn't mind my alterations in your poll. The brilliant idea was yours.

Working for my state's bar association doing research and writing! Great way to network!

First semester, above median @ Duke, had two realistic offers. One was a federal agency in DC, the other a SF Bay Area judicial internship. Took the judicial internship for cost/location/awesomely cool judge considerations.

Solid thread.

Research assistant. Like the prof I'm working with, I get paid, and I'm learning an awful lot about legal research. I can't complain.

In East Africa with an international NGO. Totally my dream job, but tons and tons of work.

SoftBoiledLife wrote:Research assistant. Like the prof I'm working with, I get paid, and I'm learning an awful lot about legal research. I can't complain.

Same here. I've learned more about Lexis and Westlaw in a week than I did all year. Plus I don't have to wear a suit every day.

Also should note that you can now revote and choose up to three options, so if you are splitting, please so indicate!

BobSacamano wrote:

SoftBoiledLife wrote:Research assistant. Like the prof I'm working with, I get paid, and I'm learning an awful lot about legal research. I can't complain.

Same here. I've learned more about Lexis and Westlaw in a week than I did all year. Plus I don't have to wear a suit every day.

Yep. Can't beat a job that lets you work from home and in sweats. RAing ftw.

worldtraveler wrote:In East Africa with an international NGO. Totally my dream job, but tons and tons of work.

That's pretty sweet.

This thread is of interest to me.

Working for an internet legal and insurance advice company. I spend a lot of time researching stuff and writing about it in easy to understand terms. It pays, its legally related, everyone is really cool, and they let me work from home a lot of the time so I can't complain.

Edit: I'm a 1L by the way.

this is a great thread thanks for putting it up. Can people specify whether their work is paid/unpaid? Some have, but do people get paid firm jobs after their 1L year or is that strictly a 2L thing? tyia